Braintree, the payments processing company owned by eBay, said Monday that its customers would soon be able to accept Bitcoin, the digital currency popular in some tech and finance circles.

The company, which eBay bought for $800 million in cash one year ago, is considered a more developer-friendly division of PayPal, eBay’s online payments behemoth. Many of Braintree’s clients are tech start-ups like Uber, Airbnb and TaskRabbit, businesses that are looking for easy ways to integrate payments into their products for a low cost.

“It feels like we’re at the right moment in time now that a lot of those early problems with Bitcoin have been solved,” Bill Ready, chief executive of Braintree, said on stage Monday at the TechCrunch Disrupt technology conference in San Francisco.

Many companies have been slow to adopt the fledgling digital currency, which has stunted potential growth; because so few companies accept it, consumers are less likely to adopt and regularly use Bitcoin.